Senior Process Engineer

McDermott International, Ltd; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

McDermott International, Ltd is seeking a Senior Process Engineer in the United Kingdom to enhance the process engineering discipline across projects. The role involves leading design work, guiding less experienced colleagues, and ensuring compliance with project specifications and standards.

You will coordinate with multidisciplinary teams, prepare design basis, and contribute to bid proposals and technical documentation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or Master’s Degree in Engineering.
• 8–15 years of oil and gas experience with a major contractor or consulting firm.
• Preferably Registered Professional Engineer or member of a professional engineering society.

Responsibilities

• Perform conceptual, FEED, studies and detailed analyses per design basis and standards.
• Direct Engineering team as a Lead Engineer on small projects.
• Prepare detailed design calculations, reports, and procedures.
• Manage time to meet deadlines and budgets; plan short-term work.
• Interface with disciplines to develop clash-free designs.
• Review vendor/subcontractor submittals for compliance.
• Provide guidance to less experienced engineers and check discipline outputs.
• Attend project reviews, vendor meetings, and site surveys as required.

Education

Bachelor's Degree or Master’s Degree in Engineering

Job description

Job Overview

The Senior Process Engineer uses best practices and knowledge of internal or external issues to improve the process engineering discipline within McDermott. They will act as a resource for colleagues with less experience and share their conceptual and practical expertise related to the process engineering discipline. The Senior Process Engineer solves complex problems and uses discipline‑specific knowledge to improve their products or services. The Senior Process Engineer impacts a range of customer, operational, project, or service activities with the process engineering team and other related teams and ensures that they work within the appropriate guidelines and policies.

Responsibilities

• Perform conceptual, FEED, studies and detailed analyses and design as per design basis, project specifications, design codes, and standards.
• Direct Engineering team as a Lead Engineer on small projects.
• Apply knowledge and skills to a wide range of standard and non‑standard situations.
• Prepare clear and accurate detailed design calculations and analyses, including design reports and procedures.
• Manage own time to meet agreed deadlines and budgets and develop plans for short‑term work activities in own area.
• Clearly communicate and explain complex issues and work to establish understanding.
• Be fully familiar with the project scope of work, specifications, schedule, and all inter‑discipline requirements, including identifying concerns as early as practicable and taking appropriate initiatives to address the issues.
• Identify changes to scope and promptly raise change notifications, including providing any necessary supporting documentation and estimates.
• Provide similar support for Variation Orders.
• Interface with all disciplines to develop clash‑free designs.
• Interface with other departments to obtain input for Discipline designs and drawings.
• Maintain close coordination with other engineering disciplines, Planning, and Project Management Teams, as required.
• Document substantive communications (communication that result in significant decisions or assignment of actions) and forward copies to Discipline Lead Engineer and Discipline Manager.
• Assist in the preparation of estimates for bid proposals, including technical query reviews, execution statements, and work‑hour estimates.
• Raise technical queries to obtain missing information, clarify work scope, and maintain preferred McDermott procedures, specifications, standards, practices, and operational requirements.
• Prepare Discipline engineering design basis, philosophies, and technical specifications as required.
• Participate in finalising deliverables lists and deliverables, ensuring compliance with specifications and functional integrity.
• Attend project review meetings, vendor meetings, engineering meetings, and offshore site surveys, as required.
• Provide technical direction and review of Designers producing products related to Process Engineering.
• Review vendor and subcontractor submittals, checking for compliance with project specifications and providing comments as necessary.
• Guide less experienced engineers on MDR and Discipline procedures, standards, worksheets, design calculations, software, requisitions, technical bid evaluations, technical queries, etc.
• Check engineering performed by others within the discipline.
• Be aware of costs related to own work and of the discipline.
• Act as a resource for colleagues with less experience.
• Responsible for preparing and checking key deliverables, applicable as per the Project scope:
  • Process simulations / Heat and material balances
  • Process flow diagrams (PFD)
  • Piping and instrument diagrams (P&ID)
  • Process safeguarding diagrams
  • Equipment and instrument process datasheets
  • Process specifications
  • Operating philosophy and startup and operating manuals
  • Equipment list (process data)
  • Line list (process data)
  • Equipment and line sizing calculations
  • Flare radiation and dispersion calculations
  • Depressurization and flare network studies
  • Process studies
• Provide process assistance to other disciplines by performing IDC and providing inputs as required for the following activities:
  • Layout review
  • Area classification drawings
  • Safety studies
  • Electrical load list
  • Equipment datasheets
  • Instrument datasheets
  • ESD and F&G logic diagrams and control narratives
  • Assist in close out of HAZOP action items
• Participate in internal, customer, and third‑party technical audits on engineering deliverables and vendor documents.

Reporting & Liaison

• Reports to: Project Lead Engineer/PEM.
• Functional: Supervising Department Manager.
• Liaise with: All Engineering disciplines, Fabrication Group, Safety Department, Document Control, Procurement Group, Subcontractors, Vendors, and Customers.
• Supervises: Engineers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or Master’s Degree in Engineering.
• 8-15 years of experience in oil and gas with a major contractor or consultants predominantly performing detail design.
• Strong working knowledge of many design techniques and analysis methods and detailed knowledge of the content and application of standards, codes, and guidelines as applicable.
• Preferably Registered Professional Engineer or member of a professional engineering society as applicable.